Fifty weeks of trying to reverse last year’s election have failed: The black guy still won!

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Oct 16, 2013 at 11:16 AMOct 16, 2013 at 2:02 PM

At this time last year, with only a few weeks remaining before the 2012 presidential election, countless Republicans were telling themselves that the polls were all wrong. They were sure that Barack Obama could not win a second term in the White House. They told themselves that the election of 2008 had been a fluke, an aberration arising from the near-collapse of the financial markets near the end of George W. Bush’s presidency.

This year would be different, they thought. Times had changed, they assured themselves. The Tea Party movement had arisen, carrying Republicans to new heights of power and ...

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Pat Cunningham

At this time last year, with only a few weeks remaining before the 2012 presidential election, countless Republicans were telling themselves that the polls were all wrong. They were sure that Barack Obama could not win a second term in the White House. They told themselves that the election of 2008 had been a fluke, an aberration arising from the near-collapse of the financial markets near the end of George W. Bush’s presidency.

This year would be different, they thought. Times had changed, they assured themselves. The Tea Party movement had arisen, carrying Republicans to new heights of power and ...

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